OpenShift Infrastructure Engineer

Introduction

At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress.

Your role and responsibilities
Your Role and Responsibilities

• Designs and provisions RedHat OpenShift infrastructure considering Cloud native architecture and deployment models. Creates RedHat Container Platform Cluster. Implements OpenShift PaaS DevOps Toolchain. Experienced in OpenShift Component services in Compute, Storage, Networking and monitoring of applications.
• Deploys and implements Ansible playbooks. Implements task control, deploying files to manage host and host pattern design, role and policy based playbook creation, optimize compute, storage and network service design.
• Holds the certification associated with this skill: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration. Performs Infrastructure as code provisioning and creation of sandbox environment.
• Applies knowledge of Storage, Compute, Security Services. Performs administration of hybrid cloud environment, Configuration of HA/DR. Understands SLA management, services health management and key metrics monitoring.
• Experience in Kubernetes Docker, CRIO.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 8-10 years of experience in software engineering with a very good understanding of the fundamentals of containers and the Kubernetes platform.
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment and basic Linux administration skills.
• Must have hands-on experience in setting up and configuring the Kubernetes platform.
• Experience working with Red Hat OpenShift is preferable.
• Experience in developing deployment scripts for Kubernetes-based micro-services.
• Practical experience of implementing end to end Continuous Integration/Delivery solutions in Kubernetes environment.
• Experience in authoring build scripts with Jenkins or Travis or Tekton.
• Experience with problem determination, root cause analysis and debugging in Kubernetes/OpenShift environment
• Good experience working with tools like Git.
• Experience creating automation using scripts (Shell/Perl/Python, etc.) and using tools like ansible/Chef/Puppet.
• Experience in delivering projects using Agile methods and tools such as Jira.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills.
• Must have an engineering mindset in addressing problems.
• Experience working and doing basic administration in Unix/Linux environments.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Years of Experience:
8-12